"You should see it when it bounds about so gaily."
"I don't care if I see it again or not. Nothing matters at all to me,"
Cornelli returned in a most unfriendly manner.
"No, this is not true," said Dino, laughing kindly. "When one talks
that way it shows that one cares a great deal and that one is full of
bitter thoughts, just because one can't have what one wants. I know
that very well; I do exactly the same thing."
Cornelli was so astonished by Dino's knowledge in the matter that she
gazed at him dumfounded.
"Oh, yes, I know how it is," he repeated. "But you do not need to be
bitter, because you lead the finest life anyone possibly could. I
always think so each morning and evening when I go over to the stable
to drink my milk. What a wonderful garden you have! I never saw such
fruit. A whole tree full of plums and all the berries on the bushes!
And then the two fine horses that are kept separately in your stable
for you. Matthew has told me that your father drives with you every
week and that you can have everything in the house and in the garden,
for you are the only child.
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